Posted on 17 December 2011. Tags: Attorney, Bears, client, defense, disputes, ExBears, factor, Hurd, list, Nfl, Nfl Players, players, Sam Hurd, the Bears, tied, wideout
An lawyer for ex-Chicago Bears wideout Sam Hurd said Friday that his client had never sold drugs to other NFL players, hoping to put any rumors to rest as his client prepares to fight federal drug charges.
Much less than an hour following Hurd was cut by the Bears, defense lawyer Brett Greenfield told reporters that his client planned to fight the charges and wanted one particular thing created clear:
“Sam has asked me to address one particular point, with respect to the rumors that Sam has been supplying drugs to other members of the NFL, out of respect to the NFL, out of respect to teammates and out of respect to other players, he 100 percent denies that allegation,” Greenfield stated. “It is patently and completely false. It just didn’t happen.”
Another defense lawyer of Hurd’s, David Kenner, also disputed the report that authorities have a list of NFL players with a connection to Hurd, who is facing federal drug charges following his Wednesday arrest.
“I haven’t seen all the material,” Kenner told the Chicago Sun-Occasions. “But we have noticed absolutely nothing to support that contention. We believe that is just not the case.”
Chicago sports radio station, 670 The Score, cited a law enforcement supply in reporting Thursday that police have a list of NFL players in the “double-digits” supplied by the former Bears wide receiver.
The NFL also said Friday it is not conscious of other players involved in the federal drug case against Hurd.
League spokesman Brian McCarthy said the NFL is closely monitoring the case. Asked about the report about the list in question, McCarthy mentioned: “We are not conscious of such a list.”
Hurd was arrested Wednesday night right after authorities mentioned he agreed to acquire a kilogram, or 2.two pounds, of cocaine from an undercover agent. A criminal complaint says Hurd wanted to set up a drug-distribution network in the Chicago location.
Asked how specific he was that other players on the Bears or around the league had been not involved, Bears common manager Jerry Angelo stated, “I can’t talk about that.”
“I’m definitely not going on any witch hunts about players,” he added. “The one particular thing that we’ve performed when there’s been a wrong, we’ve acted. We don’t justify wrongs. We’ve acted. We have a track record of undertaking that. Regrettably, a scenario arose that caught us off guard, but not to the point exactly where we aren’t going to do the correct factor.”
Bears wideout Earl Bennett mentioned he doesn’t believe other players are involved.
“I wouldn’t feel so,” he stated. “A lot of guys in this locker space are quite high-character guys.”
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Posted on 06 July 2011. Tags: arrested, blood alcohol concentration, disputes, field sobriety test, getty images, law, law enforcement professionals, limit, Lorenzo, lorenzo neal, Neal, Nfl, site, whilst
In what appears to be an item from the potato-potahto/tomato-tomahto file, veteran NFL fullback Lorenzo Neal claims that he wasn’t arrested for DUI. Even although the cops said he was.
“Lorenzo Neal was not arrested,” Neal told Alexan Balekian of KMJ 105.9 FM. “Lorenzo Neal got cited.”
But here’s what CHP Officer Axel Reyes told KFSN-Tv: “A standard field sobriety test determined he was driving under the influence and then placed him under arrest.”
So whilst Neal apparently wasn’t taken downtown (possibly due to the fact of his involvement with Secure Rides Solutions, a professional driver service and DUI prevention program operated by law enforcement specialists), KFSN reported that Neal was arrested due to the fact . . . wait for it . . . the cops stated he was.
Neal admits that he “maybe had some drinks out on the golf course,” that he “made a poor choice,” that he got into a minor car accident, and that he was over the legal limit.
“I was really, very close to the limit,” Neal stated. “I do not know, .11 or .10. The legal limit is .08.”
Neal bristles at the notion that he was “being irresponsible” or “reckless.” But, frankly, he was.
The reality that no one was hurt or injured does not matter. The law presumes that everyone with a blood-alcohol concentration of .08 percent or greater is impaired. And even though he can shrug at the fact that he “only” had a .11 or a .10, that’s still at least 25 percent above the legal limit.
Ideally, every single driver of a significant, heavy, rolling steel box would at all times have a blood-alcohol concentration of .00. In Neal’s case, his playing weight of 255 pounds coupled with the BAC chart suggests that he had at least six or seven drinks just before driving, possibly far more if he consumed those drinks over the full course of 18 holes of golf.
In the interview, which is obtainable at the KMJ website, Neal complains about the reality that the incident received so considerably publicity. But what does he anticipate? When somebody has a high profile in the community, a DUI arrest/citation/whatever will attract attention. Specially when the guy is directly involved in preventing drunk driving. (It is the Chris Hansen impact.)
I came away from listening to the Lorenzo Neal interview with three conclusions. Initial, Neal appears to believe drinking even though playing golf and then driving is different from and/or greater than binge drinking and then driving. There isn’t, and it is not. Drunk driving is drunk driving, not matter what is consumed or where it is consumed or how a lot is consumed. Second, Neal appears to feel that the special therapy he possibly received from the cops ought to extend to the media and the fans. Third, far more than two seasons soon after he last played in an NFL game, Neal’s sense of entitlement and privilege remains in midseason form.
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Posted on 11 June 2011. Tags: account, disputes, family, grave, Green Bay Press Gazette, Lombardi, nearby neighborhood, neglected, site, Super Bowl Trophy, total disarray, Vince Lombardi
Although the lockout has us focusing on news items that we otherwise would ignore, anything relating to one of the greatest coaches in NFL history will always get our attention.
In late Could, a report surfaced regarding man who takes care of Vince Lombardi’s grave in New Jersey. Lombardi’s former secretary, Lori Keck, had visited the internet site, and she identified Gary Martin, a local Jets fan, tending to the tombstone and surrounding vegetation.
“I was totally amazed that no 1 [had been] taking care of the gravesite,” Keck told Mike Vandermause of the Green Bay Press-Gazette. “I don’t want to develop any problems here, but I’m very surprised that the loved ones wasn’t doing it. He’s an icon and the Super Bowl trophy is named right after him. Somebody ought to be taking care of that gravesite.”
Stated Martin, “The grave was in total disarray. You couldn’t even read his name. It was completely overgrown. It took a lot of work. You can’t think the function it takes.”
The Lombardi family, which initially contacted the Press-Gazette to contend that the neighborhood Knights of Columbus chapter has been tending to the website, formally has responded in a letter published on Friday by the Press-Gazette, via NFL.com. Although the letter arguably tries to dismiss the comments from Keck and Martin by characterizing the report as an “opinion piece,” opinions rooted in truth of the persons interviewed for a news story do not convert a piece of challenging news into the opinions of the writer. (That stated, the hard news would have been a lot more total if, as the letter from the Lombardi loved ones suggests, the original write-up had sought comment from the loved ones or from the management of the cemetery where the grave is situated.)
The letter from the Lombardi family members thanks Martin for his efforts, even though the letter sharply contradicts his description of the grave website at the time he began to take care of it.
Lombardi’s grandson, Joe, presently serves as the quarterbacks coach of the New Orleans Saints.
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Posted on 26 April 2011. Tags: Baltimore Ravens, Boxer, Chickasaw, chickasaw nation, disputes, gaming commission, lab, manager, mike joyce, positive, Ravens, test, Tom Zbikowski, Zbikowski
Tom Zbikowski’s manager said Tuesday the Baltimore Ravens safety is appealing a positive drug test administered after a weekend boxing match in Oklahoma. Zbikowski took another test Tuesday at a Chicago lab that came back negative, said his manager, Mike Joyce, who hopes the Chickasaw Nation Gaming Commission overturns a 45-day suspension leveled against his client.
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